Kevin Kelly

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About Kevin Kelly

Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor for its first seven years. He is also founding editor and co-publisher of the popular Cool Tools website, which has been reviewing tools daily since 2003. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers' Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. His books include the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy, the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control, a graphic novel about robots and angels, The Silver Cord, an oversize catalog of the best of Cool Tools, and his summary theory of technology in What Technology Wants (2010). His new book for Viking/Penguin is The Inevitable, which is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller.

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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future Jun 7, 2016

by Kevin Kelly

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A New York Times Bestseller

From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our lives

Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion. In this fascinating, provocative new book, Kevin Kelly provides an optimistic road map for the future, showing how the coming changes in our lives—from virtual reality in the home to an on-demand economy to artificial intelligence embedded in everything we manufacture—can be understood as the result of a few long-term, accelerating forces. Kelly both describes these deep trends—interacting, cognifying, flowing, screening, accessing, sharing, filtering, remixing, tracking, and questioning—and demonstrates how they overlap and are codependent on one another. These larger forces will completely revolutionize the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate with each other. By understanding and embracing them, says Kelly, it will be easier for us to remain on top of the coming wave of changes and to arrange our day-to-day relationships with technology in ways that bring forth maximum benefits. Kelly’s bright, hopeful book will be indispensable to anyone who seeks guidance on where their business, industry, or life is heading—what to invent, where to work, in what to invest, how to better reach customers, and what to begin to put into place—as this new world emerges.

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New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World Oct 1, 1999

by Kevin Kelly

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The classic book on business strategy in the new networked economy— from the author of the New York Times bestseller The Inevitable

Forget supply and demand. Forget computers. The old rules are broken. Today, communication, not computation, drives change. We are rushing into a world where connectivity is everything, and where old business know-how means nothing. In this new economic order, success flows primarily from understanding networks, and networks have their own rules. In New Rules for the New Economy, Kelly presents ten fundamental principles of the connected economy that invert the traditional wisdom of the industrial world. Succinct and memorable, New Rules explains why these powerful laws are already hardwired into the new economy, and how they play out in all kinds of business—both low and high tech— all over the world. More than an overview of new economic principles, it prescribes clear and specific strategies for success in the network economy. For any worker, CEO, or middle manager, New Rules is the survival kit for the new economy.

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Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities Mar 29, 2018

by Kevin Kelly

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What Technology Wants Oct 14, 2010

by Kevin Kelly

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From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Inevitable— a sweeping vision oftechnology as a living force that can expand our individual potential

This provocative book introduces a brand-new view of technology. It suggests that technology as a whole is not a jumble of wires and metal but a living, evolving organism that has its own unconscious needs and tendencies. Kevin Kelly looks out through the eyes of this global technological system to discover "what it wants." He uses vivid examples from the past to trace technology's long course and then follows a dozen trajectories of technology into the near future to project where technology is headed. This new theory of technology offers three practical lessons: By listening to what technology wants we can better prepare ourselves and our children for the inevitable technologies to come. By adopting the principles of pro-action and engagement, we can steer technologies into their best roles. And by aligning ourselves with the long-term imperatives of this near-living system, we can capture its full gifts. Written in intelligent and accessible language, this is a fascinating, innovative, and optimistic look at how humanity and technology join to produce increasing opportunities in the world and how technology can give our lives greater meaning.

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Out Of Control: The New Biology Of Machines, Social Systems, And The Economic World Apr 30, 2009

by Kevin Kelly

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Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things.

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Lo inevitable: Entender las 12 fuerzas tecnológicas que configurarán nuestro futuro (Spanish Edition) Apr 25, 2017

by Kevin Kelly

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Gran parte de lo que sucederá en los próximos treinta años es inevitable, impulsado por las tendencias tecnológicas que ya están en movimiento. En este fascinante y provocativo nuevo libro, Kevin Kelly ofrece una hoja de ruta optimista para el futuro, mostrando cómo los cambios que vienen en nuestras vidas -desde la realidad virtual en el hogar a una economía a la carta, hasta la inteligencia artificial incrustada en todo lo que fabricamos- pueden ser entendidas como el resultado de unas pocas fuerzas de aceleración a largo plazo. Kelly describe ambas tendencias profundas: interactuando, conociendo, fluyendo, explorando, accediendo, compartiendo, filtrando, remezclando, rastreando y cuestionando y demuestra cómo se superponen y son codependientes entre sí. Estas fuerzas más grandes revolucionarán completamente la forma en que compramos, trabajamos, aprendemos y nos comunicamos unos con otros. Al entenderlas y adoptarlas, dice Kelly, será más fácil para nosotros estar al tanto de la próxima ola de cambios y arreglar nuestras relaciones cotidianas con la tecnología de manera que produzcan los máximos beneficios. El libro brillante y esperanzador de Kelly será indispensable para cualquier persona que busque orientación sobre dónde se dirige su negocio, su industria o su vida: qué inventar, dónde trabajar, qué invertir, cómo llegar mejor a los clientes y qué empezar a poner en su lugar mientras este nuevo mundo emerge.

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Bootstrapping Complexity Jul 26, 2011

by Kevin Kelly , Andreas Lloyd

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This book tells you how to understand networks such as the internet and social networks. However it was written long before Facebook, or even the web, existed so it explains the principles of networks by examples in biology -- like a beehive, a rain forest, or immune system. It tells the story of how feedback loops can create new phenomena and govern old ones, and why letting innovations like a social network be "out of control" is a good thing. The author also visits technological labs and reports on what they discover as they try to create artificial intelligence from dumb chips, or robots from insect-like parts, or complex organizations from simple ones. If you want to understand how the hive-mind of Twitter or Wikipedia works, this is the best book on the subject. It is an abridged version of the original, Out of Control, edited to focus on the chapters that tell how to "bootstrap" large complex systems and to engineer governance in non-governable networks. While written 18 years ago, the examples and wisdom are timeless.

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Bicycle Haiku Mar 16, 2011

by Kevin Kelly

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Bicycle Haiku is a reproduction of a sketchbook I kept while I rode my bicycle across the US in 1979. It contains an ink sketch and a haiku for each day of the three month 5,000 mile trip. A typical scene would be like the day I passed through Francisco, Indiana. On a page full of cow faces staring up at me, the haiku goes: "Collective silence/Like I walked into the wrong room/Every horned head turned." (This was Annie Dillard's favorite.) I scanned the 151 images in the original book and printed this at a books-on-demand printer in 2001. This book will not be a best-seller. It's a book of poetry, and you know what that means. It might appeal to anyone intrigued by pedaling across a continent, or loners fascinated by blue highways and other little-traveled roads, or sensitive souls really into haikus, or sketches. I can imagine a few odd ducks who collect self-published books that will be thrilled by this book. Personal friends of mine may be interested in this vanity publishing. For the rest -- that is for most normal people -- there is nothing of fashionable interest here.

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Bad Dreams Jan 1, 2003

by Kevin Kelly

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I once took a class with the brilliant black and white photographer Minor White. He had us perform all kinds of wonderful exercises on our photographs. At the time of the workshop (in autumn of 1971), I was spending a great deal of my life trudging around upstate New York with a tripod and large format camera making slightly abstract black and white images. My favorite Minor White exercise was his request that we draw or sketch our own photographs. This non-intuitive idea tickled me, and I got out my pen and ink and eagerly started.

The first image I drew surprised me. What I seemed to see in my own close-up picture of the decaying paint on a rusty outdoor sign was a one-legged man in shorts chained to the night sky. I have absolutely no idea where that image came from.

I continued to sketch what I saw in other photographs I had recently done, and the resulting drawings continue to disturb me. The same guy in shorts kept showing up, entangled in all kinds of unresolved tensions. By the tenth one, I found that I could easily get into the state of mind, or rather state of no-mind, to start drawing. The emerging theme seemed to be "bad dreams." I would probe myself for bad dreams, and record. By the eleventh image I found that I didn't even need the photograph. I would just relax, try to "see" a bad dream, and then draw.

For several years afterward, long after I had stopped taking abstract black and white images, I would occasionally take out a sheet of typing paper, open my bottle of India ink and with a pen in hand slip into a "bad dream" trance to draw. It was like going to the movies because I felt I was watching someone else draw. Maybe this is what "channeling" feels like, I thought, because I don't feel much responsibility for what comes out. I'm just passing them on as the delighted messenger.

I kept this pile of sketches in an envelope in a file cabinet and came across them while moving. I decided to reproduce the series here in this homemade book for several reasons. One, why not? The drawings were lonely and bored, and doing little good stuffed in darkness and kept from view. They are inconsequential doodles, but I've learned late in life that whatever marginal value they have can only be gathered by being shared. Two, the exercise of drawing photos is a good one to try and to disseminate. And Three, maybe others in the audience can tell me what these images mean. What don't I see?

Four, and most importantly, I really enjoyed these and maybe others would enjoy seeing them too. I hope so.

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